India, Sept. 12 -- At what point does a house become a home? Is it the walls, the people who inhabit them, or simply the price someone is willing to pay for them? And, more unsettlingly, is there really a price tag attached to everything and everyone?

Last Man In Tower, starring Manoj Bajpayee, wastes little time in putting these uncomfortable questions front and centre. Packed into a crisp one-and-a-half-hour runtime, the film turns a straightforward story about a building and its residents into an exploration of greed.

Based on Aravind Adiga's novel of the same name, the story revolves around Masterji (Manoj Bajpayee), an ageing schoolteacher who lives alone in Vishram, away from his son and his family after his wife died. The society...